Cornwall and Dorset Lichen

[FungiJohn]

Hi all

I'm always fascinated by Lichen and now more so by the content / contribution to the Lichen subsite.

I'll be in Cornwall and Dorset over the next couple of weeks and will try to record species I come across.

Are there any species I should particularly look for or that would be of interest to others?

They will be a few fungi too

John

[poschiavanus]

Hi John,

There's loads of good stuff in the SW. On twigs look for the Usnea with large disc-like apothecia: should be a good variety of different species. Also good variety of Ramalina in the same locations.

The lichen holy grail is Teleoschistes flavicans, golden-hair lichen. It's on the Scillies, but not sure if any extant elsewhere in the SW.

Also plenty along rocky seashores, lime-rich rocks in Dorset, and probably unusual ones of mineral spoil heaps in Cornwall.

Have a good time.

Posch

[Chris Yeates]

. . . and don't forget David Hawksworth's speciality - the lichenicolous fungi

see: http://www.botanicgardens.ie/herb/census/cclichol.pdf - I remember getting very excited when I found Cornutispora lichenicola, with its distinctive Y -shaped conidia on Parmelia caperata . . . .

a lot of these will occur in the SW

have fun

Chris